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Sony set out to be the iTunes of book-publishing with its Sony Reader. And Sony built a pretty good technical and marketing replica of that iPod model — with an initial online offering that was comparable to Apple’s initial limited selection, with a desktop piece of software clearly modeled on the iTunes client, with redistribution Continue reading

So I saw through someone’s feed on Facebook that National Novel Writing Month is going on. This is an improvement — I usually notice this when it’s already over. I dithered a bit on whether I should attempt it with the month half gone and so many other things in the works here. And then Continue reading

Ah, zee blogs… So I’ve been away a bit, working on the college’s AT vision plan, which I wiki-ed out over a period of a week with some other folks. That turns out to be interesting from a process standpoint…we did some marathon work on it the past two weeks, and presented it to an Continue reading

So there’s a front page article today in the Wall Street Journal. The subject? My political blog, Blue Hampshire. The title? “Have a Laptop? You, Too, Can Sway New Hampshire Race.” Subtitle? “Self-Appointed Bloggers Get Candidate Face Time; On the Bus With Edwards” You know, there’s so much insecurity in that headline that I’m nervous Continue reading

A couple weeks ago I applied for a grant from the Knight News Challenge for creation of a microreporting infrastructure — an idea I’ve been batting around for about a year now but haven’t had time to implement (check out, for example, this ghost town). Not sure if I’ll get the grant or not, but Continue reading

There’s a story that Will Robinson tells, perhaps apocryphal, Â about a student that took their first draft of a paper, and posted it to Wikipedia. After a week or so they took it down, newly edited, fact checked and sourced. Well, maybe this will work, and maybe it won’t, but I’m involved in writing Continue reading

So we’re about 20 hours into this week, and so far I’ve spent over 10 of those hours on drafting an academic technology plan for my institution. I have trouble explaining why it’s so hard to draft, but perhaps if you’ve ever tried to tie a policy document into the greater fabric of policy documents Continue reading

Been trying out Brightcove as a video service. Test film follows below: If anyone has any thoughts on the use of Brightcove, please share. Continue reading

I think this video does a nice job of showing what a museum a university education has become: (h/t Andy Rush) Continue reading